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Show ARMY OFFICER RELIEVED. Mnj. Montgomery Goes Fiom White House to Pacific Coast. WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 An order was Issued todny by direction of the President relieving MiJ. Benjamin E. Montgomery now on duty as chief of the telegraph nnd cipher bureau of the executive of- nos, whit House, February next, and - I ung him to Benecla barrncJca. Cnl.. to SSBIUIM command of company F. signal . (-.-. ti Its arrival from the Philippin e Th' order not only nll- v-s MaJ. Mum- Romtry from iutv at th. White Rouso, l- it also has the . (To. t -f reducing lilrn to it .. ink of Captain MaJ Montgomery has ben at the White House for twenty-eight twenty-eight vi-ars. fourteen years f that lime kg a private officer In the signal corps. No rea. ons are assigned for tho chanse. .xc.pt that It wan felt Bt tho White i;,.w-e that the telegraph buoau ought to b" diroetly under the control of the s - r. tar-' to the President. A-'irtmt Secretarv Budolph F, rster has direct charge of tho bureau, and will , nilnuo In charge of It. No othej officer of thi signal corps will be deta'l-d to tho White Mouse to succeed MaJ Montgomery' Montgom-ery' Tho latter has been granted four months" leaves of absence before assuming assum-ing his n- w dutlen. |